LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE IMAGE: CAMERA SET UP FOR TAKING IMAGES OF PARTICIPANTS LOWER LEGS CREDIT: LOUISE KELLY-HOPE A paper published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine presents the results from a study which examined the use of an infrared thermal imaging camera as a novel non-invasive point-of-care tool for lymphatic filariasis lower-limb lymphoedema....
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER Adults with schizophrenia have an elevated risk of dying from suicide. Yet there’s only limited understanding of when and why people with schizophrenia die of suicide –in part because research studies have looked at relatively small groups of patients. Now a new study from Columbia that looked at a large...
by University of Birmingham Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over the years, and now a team of researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham have been able to provide some answers. Their new study,...
by Anne Goffard, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ever since the appearance of SARS-CoV-2 variants, a crucial question has been on everybody’s minds: will vaccines developed to protect against the “original” strain also work against new variants? It’s a legitimate concern. In late March, South Africa announced that it had sold off all its doses...
by University of Birmingham Pancreatic cancer cells (blue) growing as a sphere encased in membranes (red). Credit: National Cancer Institute A University of Birmingham-led study has found almost half of people diagnosed within inoperable pancreatic cancer are not prescribed inexpensive yet essential tablets without which they cannot digest food—placing them at risk of starvation or being...
by The Endocrine Society Credit: CC0 Public Domain People who eat too many refined carbs and fatty meats for dinner have a higher risk of heart disease than those who eat a similar diet for breakfast, according to a nationwide study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Cardiovascular diseases like congestive heart failure, heart attack and stroke...
by American College of Cardiology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tobacco use continues to be a primary contributor to the global burden of disease, causing an estimated 12% of deaths worldwide among people aged 30 and over. Four leading cardiovascular organizations—American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology and World Heart Federation—today released a...
By SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 07:16 EDT, 26 May 2021 | UPDATED: 07:16 EDT, 26 May 2021 A simple thumb test could be used to identify people at risk of a condition that can kill in minutes and has no symptoms. It will indicate if a person is harbouring an aortic aneurysm — an abnormal bulge in the wall of the...
Types of visual migraine, or ocular migraine, include migraine with aura and retinal migraine. Both of these are neurological conditions wherein a person may experience visual disturbances or vision loss alongside a headache. However, sometimes, a person can develop visual disturbances, such as seeing stars, without getting a headache. This type of migraine is called a silent migraine....
by Monash University Gardasil vaccine and box. Image: Wikipedia A study by Monash University and Alfred Health found a 70 percent reduction in one type of human papillomavirus (HPV) in gay and bisexual men after the implementation of the school-based HPV vaccination program. The HYPER2 study, published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, and led by Associate Professor Eric...
